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Gifts of Inspiration Foundation at a glance

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Gifts of Inspiration Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0171% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kFood & Nutrition$25kHealth$15kReligion$12kPhilanthropy$8kEducation$4kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,858
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF$15,000
SULLY FIRE AND AMBULANCE$6,500
PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL IA$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,858
Individual grant recipient$1,000
THE WELL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
EAST HIGH BOOSTER CLUB$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%818 FORWARD WITH FAITH: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 14 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$151k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

21%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionReligionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k
  • PC
    PELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF
    2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2025 · $22k

Funded once

  • 8F
    818 FORWARD WITH FAITH INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • PI
    PAY IT FORWARD CLOTHES CLOSET
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BC
    BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -28%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Pella Regional Health Center

The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.

Health
2
Pella Hospital Foundation

To support pella regional health center in its mission to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion

Health
3
Pella Community Day Care Center

The pella community day care center, dba: pella early learning center's mission statement is to provide quality childcare and maintain high standards for the child, parent/guardian, staff and community in a developmentally appropriate…

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4
Furniture Mission of South Dakota

To share the love of christ through the acceptance and distribution of gently used furniture to those in need. to give families and individuals the basic furnishings needed to make a house into a home by collecting donations of gently used…

Human Services
5
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
6
The Philomena House Corp

The philomena house provides a safe, supportive residential program for pregnant, homeless women and offers assistance to women in the twin cities facing crisis pregnancies by providing free housing and care.

Human Services
7
Family Planning Council of Iowa

The purpose of the family planning council of iowa is to assure access to quality reproductive healthcare and family planning for all people.

Health
8
St Peter's Hospital Foundation Inc

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. peter's hospital foundation is a member of st. peter's health…

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9
Cedar Falls Lutheran Home

Christian caring - enhancing lives through a commitment to individualized care in a home empowered by god's love.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Folded Flag Foundation

The mission of the folded flag foundation is to provide scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the united states military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident…

Public Benefit
11
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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12
Friends of the Pella Community Center Inc

The organization's mission is to perserve, enhance and support the city of pella's community center, an historic facility at 712 union street in pella, ia. the facility houses the community's arts, cultural, educational and social services…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pella Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Center of Central Iowa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $49,718 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $21,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJASPER CO EMS SERVICES: $20,500 · OtherJASPER CO EMS SERVICESTHE WELL: $11,000 · OtherTHE WELLPAY IT FORWARD CLOTHES CLOSET: $5,000 · Other+15 more: $24,000 · Other+15 morePELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $25,000 · Food & NutritionPELLA COMMUNIT…818 FORWARD WITH FAITH INC: $20,000 · Human Services818 FORWARD …PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesPELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,720 · PhilanthropyPREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $5,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $2,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,700 · EducationSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterFINAL SALUTE INC: $500 · Housing & ShelterTRAVELING TEAM INC: $500 · Religion
Other$131,718Food & Nutrition$25,000Human Services$21,000Philanthropy$7,720Health$7,000Education$3,700Housing & Shelter$1,500Religion$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budget818 FORWARD WITH FAITH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL IOWA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAVELING TEAM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds 818 FORWARD WITH FAITH INC ↗
  • Who funds PELLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER OF CENTRAL IOWA INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
  • Who funds PELLA ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FINAL SALUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRAVELING TEAM INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pella Rolscreen Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pella Rolscreen FoundationIA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pella Rolscreen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gifts of Inspiration Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gifts of Inspiration Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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